Machine for brushing bandage-rolls, &amp;c.



No. 844,816. PATENTED FEB. 19, 1907.

I J. E. LEE.

MACHINE FOR 'BRUSHING BANDAGE ROLLS, 6w.

APPLICATION FILED ()GT.28,1904.

2 SHEETS-SHEET l.

WITNESSE$ ATTORNEYS PATENTED FEB. 19, 1907.

J. E. LEE. MACHINE FOR BRUSHING BANDAG 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

u m w M WITNESSES ATTORNE b UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN ELLWOOD LEE, OF CONSHOHOCKEN, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO J. ELLWOOD LEE COMPANY, OF CONSHOHOOKEN, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

MACHINE FOR BRUSHING BANDAGE-ROLLS, 81.0.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 19, 1907.

Application filed October 28, 1904. Serial No. 23( ).435.

ing in Conshohocken, in the county of Montgomery, State of Pennsylvania, ha e invented an Improved Machine for Brushing Bandage-Rolls, &c., of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a machine which has been more particularly designed to facilitate the brushing out of the ra'velings of rolls of bandagesin carrying out the method of making bandages formin the subject of my Patent No. 761,513, date May 31,1'1904; but it will be inderstood that my improvements are ap licable to other uses.

In t e accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of my machine on ice line 1 1, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a transverse section on the line 2 2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an end view of the conveyor. Fig. 4 is a p10 view of the machine, and Fig. 5 is an enla ged view of a detail.

' A A are the side frames of the machine,

rovided carries The and B is the main shaft, which is with fast and loose pulleys b b an two brushing or abradin disks D D.

' disk D is fast upon the s aft, while'the disk dotted lines in Fig. 2.) This hollow sleeve 0.

is externally threaded and is fitted in a correspondinglv threaded fixed block E on the side frame A The outer end of the sleeve C is provided with a hand-wheel c, whi'e its inner end is connected to a block F, in which the end of the sleeve may turn, but which is so connected thereto (as by a pin 6 in the block entering an annular groove 7 in the sleeve, Fig. 5,) that the block F must accompany any lengthwise motion of the seeve C. Similarly, the hub of the disk D is so connected tothe block F (as by means of a pin 8 entering an annular groove 9 in a prolongation 11 of the hub, Fig. 5,) that movement of this block F, produced py the screwing in or outof the sleeve C, wil cause adjustment of the disk D lengthwise of the shaft B.

B tween the two disks I provide ways for conducting across between the two disks the rolls of bandages or other articles in such a manner that both endsof each roll may be brushedsimultaneously by the two revolving disks. By preference, as a part of such conducting ways I provide an endless conveyer to facilitate the traversin of the rolls across the faces of the disks. In the present instance the conveyer is shown as consisting of two endless link-belts G G, passing over pairs of chain-wheels H H and H H mounted upon shafts J J. The Wheel H is fast upon its shaft J, and the wheel H may be fast upon its shaft J, while the wheel H is mounted upon the shaft J with a spline j, so that the wheel may be movedlen thwise upon the shaft, but must revolve wit the latter. The wheel H may be free upon the shaft J. I provide meanswhereby'the wheels H and H maybe adjusted lengthwise of their respective shafts simultaneously with the adjustment of the disk D, all for the purpose of adapting the machine for actingupon different lengths of rolls of bandages or other articles, as will be readily understood.

'To enable the wheels H and H and the chain passing over them to be adjusted with the disk D, I may provide each of thcse wheels H H with a grooved collar h, into which fits the hooked and forked end of an arm K- K, mounted on a block 7c 71', on the end of a cross-bar M, affixed to the central block F, Figs. 2, 3, and 4.

The endless chains G Gcarry plates 9 g, the plates 9 having projecting wings, such that when cylindrical bandages are fed down through the chute S, Fig. 1, the wings will engage the bandages X and carry them forward across and in contact with the adjacent facts of the two revolving disks. ately over each chain at a suitable hcigl". t, depending upon the diameter of the bandages or other articles which are traversed through between the disks, I arrange as part of the conducting-way guide-bars P P, the guidebar P being laterally adjustable with the corresponding chain of the conveyor. -For this purpose the bar P has secured to it crossbars 1), Fig. 4, projecting over the bar P into and slidable through guides on cross-bars p, which are secured to the bar P. These bars p are supported upon posts '1) on the side frmne A. The bars p extend over the barR and are in turn sliduhle in guides on the eressbars p and are supported on posts p on tne CIOSS-lhtl' M.

-Underneztth the upper reach oi eneii ehztin l l l i G I refer to )rovide ii su )ortin -lm' 1 i l l chums, and n? wins ior ad usting the (llSkS,

Figs. 1 and 2. The supporting-her Q may be lixedly mounted on lllkltiktlfi on he side I may he supported iron]. the eross-lmr M by lnutekets q or in any other suitable way. Fig. 4. v

I claim is my invention 1. The combination ot a pair of rota-ding, disks with a pair of lztterzillyflzdjustable e ndless conveyer chains between the disks and means for adjusting the disks and chains toward. and from each other.

2. The combination of a pair of rotating disks with a. pair oi la.terally-adfiistable endless e znveyer-ehains trzzi'eising the space between the disks, 11- pair oi 'guidedmis over the elmins, and guide-bins toward and from each lriune A ol the HILLCZIIIIO, while the lmr QT;

other.

' lntestiniony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two suhsciibing \VitDfISSGS.

JQHN ELLWOOD LEE. \Vitnesscs:

- M. E. WRIGHT, A. A. BARR. 

